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Request: 

$6k of RALO Discretionary Funding for each of the five RALOs for a total of $30k. 

Seeking 12 hours of RTT services in English and 6 hours of RTT services in Spanish. The Spanish RTT will be off the Spanish interpretation that is already provided

At-Large Content Management System

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The support request is for the setup and maintenance of a content management system (CMS) for ICANN At-Large Community to share up to date news and updates about ICANN At-Large Community and its activities in a manner that

• reduces duplicative efforts in sharing At-Large Community news and updates
• makes At-Large Community news and updates more accessible to people on mobile devices
• allows for easier, automatic sharing of At-Large Content news and updates on At-Large social media channels and At-Large Community members’ websites and their social media channels.
• allows for better outreach to persons interested/involved in Internet Governance by making At-Large Community news and updates more discoverable via search engines and via social media so that such persons can decide to join and participate in the At-Large Community.

Currently a great deal of At-Large updates are done

• via emails manually copied to multiple At-Large Community mailing lists which are mostly invisible to search engines and not conducive to sharing over Instant Messaging or social media.
• via the At-Large wiki which is not easily accessible over mobile devices which makes for poor sharing via social media. The At-Large wiki also suffers by being a labyrinth to navigate making it confusing to even regular At-Large Community members as to where information on activities are located.
• a separate update is done on the At-Large Calendar about meetings.
• separate postings are done on At-Large social media mostly pointing to links on the At-Large wiki which is not easily accessible on mobile devices and confusing to non-At-Large Community persons who may stumble on the links
• possible further updates to the At-Large website when an activity has passed.
• This wastes a lot of effort manually copying and pasting information for emails, social media, updating wiki pages, calendars costing time, money and effort in just getting the information out. 

The proposed content management system would reduce such manual duplication by writing one post about At-Large news and updates and having that content automatically shared via email to At-Large mailing lists, to social media, be discoverable via search engines, accessible on mobile devices. At-Large members can have headlines from the At-Large Content Management System embedded on their websites. Write once, distribute everywhere.

At-Large Staff can be editors and At-Large Community members can submit posts about their ICANN activities in their language.

The proposed At-Large Community CMS is Wordpress, a popular CMS with relatively minimal hosting requirements and with a variety of plugins and themes. The funding request is to host this CMS outside of ICANN’s hosting so that ICANN’s security is maintained by not having cross-sharing of resources within ICANN.org.

The anticipated direct costs are

• $5 US /mth for a virtual server on Amazon Services or $60 US / year
• cost of a domain name to point to the website. $25 US / year

In addition, Amazon Services offers additional services such as :

• Amazon Translate (https://aws.amazon.com/translate/) which would allow for machine translation of articles in other languages, (such as from English to French and Spanish as well as content written in French and Spanish able to be translated to English), increasing the availability of content to the global, diverse At-Large Community and to potential At-Large members
• Amazon Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/) which turns text into lifelike speech, allowing for At-Large updates to be read to persons (in combination with Amazon Translate) in their language. Apart from making At-Large updates more accessible, this offers possibilities of select At-Large updates being syndicated as a audio podcast.

As an experiment, some members of the O&E developed a prototype website https://icannatlarge.blog/ showing some of these concepts in action. 

2017 GVA - 2018 PAR - 2019 BER - 2020 Katowice

IGF Global is organized for the 4th years in a row in EU

Each year EURALO is using one on his crop slot to participate and organize the presence of At-Large

IGF Global is organized for the 1st time in Eastern Europe

It is an opportunity for A-Large to be more involved in this region (covering both EU and AP)

As ICANN is now very much organized around 3 pillars: Board - Org - Comm

ICANN budget for IGF global must be equal for the 3 groups: Board - Org - Comm

At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2020)

Chair of ALAC

Chair of Euralo

Chair of O&E

+5 Co-Chairs of E&O

Request Number

3 or 8 people

20K$ to 40k$